Ophiomusa facunda (Koehler 1922)

Ophiomusium facundum Koehler

Ophiomusium facundum Koehler, 1922:398.

Koehler based his description of Ophiomusium facundum on several specimens. Clark selected USNM 41369 from station 5623 as the lectotype of this species (p. 452). The table shows this specimen to be Ophiomusium facetum from station 5263. Article 74(a)(i) of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature specifies that the valid designation of a lectotype fixes the status of the specimen. Since Clark's lectotype designation is clearly not valid, a new lectotype is selected here. In the second paragraph of his description, Koehler stated, “I shall describe the species especially from the specimen from station 5378, in which the diameter of the disk is 18 mm; its arms are not complete; I include two photographs of it (pl. 89, figs. 1, 2).” The specimen from station 5378, USNM 41360, was inadvertently left out of the list of specimens examined (p. 398–399), but Koehler primarily based the description of Ophiomusium facundum on this specimen. Therefore USNM 41360 is hereby designated the lectotype of the species. The 16 remaining specimens of Ophiomusium facundum in Table 28 are paralectotypes.

Although two specimens of Ophiomusium facetum, one from station 5429 and one from station 5263, were included in the list of specimens examined, they were never directly referred to in the text, and probably were not used in the general description of Ophiomusium facundum.